Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-14

patience with child will conquer almost |
anything, and they are virtues so Christ |
like that they are inspiring to look at. |
John Wesley's kiss of child on the pull
pit turned Matthias Joyce from a profit J
gate into flaming evsngel.
The third error prevalent in the trSiu- |
ing of children is the one-sided develop |
| ment OF either the physical, intellectual or
moral nature st the expense Of the others.
Those, for instance, greatly mistake who, i
while they are faithful in the Intellectual |
and moral culture Of children, forget the |
physical. The
BRIGHT EYES
half quenched by night study, the cramped |
chest that comes from too much bending |
over the school desks, the weak side re-
sulting from sedentariness of habit, pale |
cheeks and the gaunt bodies of multitudes
of children attest that physical develop |
ment does not always go along with in
tellectual and moral. How do you sup |
pose all those treasures OF knowledge the
child gets will look in shattered casket?
And how much will you give for the
wealthiest cargo when it is put into
leaky ship? H3w can that bright, sharp
blade OF chiLd's attainments be welded
without any handle? What are brains
worth without shoulders to carry them?
What is child with magnificent mind but
an exhausted body? Better that young
man Of twenty-oDe go forth into the world
without knowing A from 4 if he have
health of body and energy to push
| his way through the world than
at twenty-one to enter upon active life,
his head stuffed with Socrates, and Her
odotus, and Bacon, and Is ? ace, and no
physical force to sustain him in the shock
of earthly conflicts. From this infinite
blunder of parents how many have come
out in life with genius that could have
piled Ossa upon Pelion and mounted
upon them to scale the heavens, and to
have laid down painting with physical eX-
haustion before q mole-hill. They who
might have thrilled senates and marshaled
armies end startled the world with the
shock of their scientific batteries. have
passed their lives in picking up prescrip-
tons for Indigestion. They owned al
the thunderbolts Of Jupiter, but could not
get out of their rocking chair to use
. them. George Washington in early life
was 8 poor speller. and spelled hat
. h-a-double-t and ream Of paper he
spelled "rheam," but he knew enough to
spell out the independence OF this coun-
, try from foreign oppression. The knoWl-
. edge OF the schools is important, but
, there are other things quite as important.
Just as great is the wrong done when
the mind is cultivated and
| THE HEART NEGLECTED.
= The youth of this day are seldom denied
? any scholarly attainments. Our schools
and seminaries are ever growing in eff
8 fciency, and the students are conducted
| through all the realms of philosophy, and
art, and language, and mathematics. The
. most hereditary obtuseness give way be-
{ fore the onslaught of adroit instructors.
e But there is a development OF Infinite i'm
r portance which mathematics and the
8 dead languages cannot affect. The more
e mental power the more capacity for evil
e unless coupled with religious restraint
l. You discover what terrible power 1ol
A evil unsanctifed genius possesses Wher
e YOU see Scaligar with his scathing de-
O nunciations assaulting the best men o.
his time, and Blount and Spinoz,
u and Bolingbroke leading theil
e hosts of followers into
II the ali-consuming fires Of skepticlsm anC
e infdellty. Whether knowledge is
:, mighty good or an unmitigated evil de-
It Ponds entirely upon which course it takes
/, The river rolling on between round
e banks makes ali the valley laugh will
d golden wheat and rank grass, and catch
20 ing hold the wheel of mill and factory
whirls it with great industries. But
g breaking away from restraints and dash
10 ing over banks in red wrath, 1t washe
ST away harvests from their moerings ant
g makes the valley shrink with thu, catas'
ar trophe. Fire in the furnace heats tn
~ house or drives the steamer, but, uncon
trolIed warehouses go down in awful
in hnnrG
m CITY will lie in black ruin, walls an
8 towers and churches and monuments
You must accompany the education
le the intellect with the education Of tn
y. heart, or you are rousing up within you
T. child an energy which will be blastin
Mt and terrific. Better
Id WICKED OUNCE
e. than q wicked philosopher.
Id The fourth error often committed
o. the training of children is the suppress1o
he of childish sportiulness. The most tr
j. umphsnt death Of any child that | eve
j. knew was that of Scoville Haynes McCo
ny lum. A few days before that he was
OF my house in Syracuse, and he ran Ike
:" deer and his halloo made the woods echo
q You could hear him coming block OF
sh so full was he of romp and laughter an
y. whistle. Don't put religion on you
be child IS a straight jacket. Parents ate
ou having for good many years been Jos1
~ led about in the rough world often los
y. their vivacity, and are sstonished to So
,ix how their children can act so though
in lessly of the earnest world all abol
th them. That is cruel parent VIII
at quenches any of the light in the child
he soul. Instead of arresting its sportiv'
ng ness, go forth and help him trundle tt
nd hoop and fly the kite and build the sno
n castle. Those shoulders are too little
1e- carry burden, that brow Is too young
,er be wrinkled, those feet are too spright
nd to go along at funeral pace. God BILE
their young hearts! Now is the time I
in them to be sporttul. Let them romp 81
,ry sing and laugh, and go with rush and
to hurrah. In this way they gather up
lily surplus of energy for future life. f
M the Child that walks around with q ecov
md dragging his feet as though they we
md weights, and sitting down by the hour
md moplng and grumbling, prophesy L
ner of utter hamilton and discomfort. Soon
md hush the robins in the air till they 8
put silent as s bat, and lecture the friski
lambs on the hillside until they walk Ii